Railroad-tie.



D. H. SNYDER. RAILROAD TIE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I6. 19H.

Patented July 17, 1917.

DANIEL I'I. SNYDER, OF SNYDERVILLE, OHIO.

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Application filed February 16, 1917.

To all 'whom' t may concern.' Y

lle it known that I, DANIEL I-I. SNYDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Snyderville, in the county of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad-Ties, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to railroad ties.

rIhe object of my invention is to provide a durable metallic casing or casing of other similar material of great strength and long life adapted to carry Within its interior a resilient fillin g of lesser life and durability.

It is an obj ect of my invention to provide such a construction that this necessarily resilient filling upon which the tie must rest, such as a block of wood, can be utilized a number of times by substituting its various faces. It is a further object to utilize odd lengths of wood or other similar resilient material. It is an additional object to provide a construction which will permit of the permanent construction of the roadway and the metallic tie which need not be necessarily disturbed when new resilient fillings are substituted or old ones readjusted. It is a further object to provide a construction which will space rigidly and in a prede termiiied fashion the ties with respect to one another.

It is a still further object to provide an adjustable means of clamping` the rails to said ties to provide for inequalities and for weer.

It is my object also to provide interior braces in said tie..

My present invention is an improvement upon the invention set forth and described in Patent No. 1,188,503, of June 27th, 1916.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of a pair of ties and rails assembled; Fig. 2 is a section on the line A A of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a single tie showing the adjustable means for holding the rails.

My present invention comprehends as certain of its novel features a tie rectangular in cross section so that all four faces of the resilient filling may be used and then turned end for end and the four faces again used permitting of utilization of the resilient filling in eight different positions. Furthermore, if an entire resilient filling is used in the shape of an ordinary tie, then each face Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 17, 1917.

Serial No. 148,970.

of each end of the tie can be worn, giving four faces at each end. Then each end of the tie where it is worn can b-e removed, the tie cut in two and the resulting blocks placed between the braces, provided by my present invention, and each end of the blocks used on each of the four faces; then the blocks themselves can be turned end for end and each of their four faces again used, thus giving for each tie twelve faces to be used at each end effecting a large economy in the wooden ties.

I have also provided removable clamping means for holding the adjustable filling in position in the metallic container. I have provided removable braces which can be used in situations where the resilient filling is of insufficient length to fill the entire tie or where odd shape lengths may be used. I have provided means for spacing the ties with respect to one another.

In Fig. 1, 1 is the vertical wall of the metallic container, 2 is the bottom of the metallic container which is open at its top. 3, 3 are braces held in by bolts 4, 4l. 5 is the interior filling, usually of wood, 6 the rail resting upon the lling as the walls l, 1 of the metallic casing are cut away, (this will be seen clearly in Fig. 3), so that the rail can rest upon the wood, and thereby secure all the efficiency of a wooden tie without its disadvantages. 7 represents a rail clamp. An adjustable abutment 8 is held tothe wall 1 of the tie by a bolt 9. The clamp is held to the wall by a bolt 10. 11 is a transverse clamping plate embracing the upper surface of the filler 5 and held to the walls 1, 1 by bolts 12 in lugs 13. 14C is a spacer bolted at 15, 15 to the walls 1, 1 of the ties.

Referring particularly to Fig. 3 it will be seen that there is a diagonal slot 16 in the clamp 7 through which the bolt 10 travels. This slot may be diagonal or transverse to the main aXis of the clamp. I prefer, however, the diagonal slot. In the adjustable abutment 8 are transverse slots 17 in which travel the bolts 9. These adjustable fea tures permit of the use of the tie with varying weights and widths of rails. The change in the weight or width of a rail frequently occurs in the reconstruction of the roadway. With this form of tie it would be unnecessary to disturb the roadway or tie because of the change in the size of the rail.

While I have shown and described one embodiment of my invention it will be understood'thattlie same has vbeen chosen for what I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersIatent, is I 1. In a device of the character described, a shellsquare in cross section, a relatively resilientAV filling, .adjustable clamping devices attached to the walls of said shell to clamp rails against said filling,'and adjustable abutments for said clamping devices.

2. VIn a device ofthe character described, a shell square in crosssection with itsY upper face open, a section of-filling at each end of said shell, abutments to maintain said filling in position, a clamp across the open face .of said shell over the outer end o-f each section of filling, clamping devices mounted on the walls of the shell to hold the rails against said filling, and an adjustable abutment for each of said clamping devices.

3. In a device of the character described, a shell square in cross section with its upper Aface open, a section of filling at each end of said shell, abutments to maintain said filling in position, a clamp across the open face of said shell over the outer end of each section of filling, clamping devices mounted on the walls of the shell to hold the rails against said filling, an adjustable abutment for each of' said clamping devices, and means at each end of said casing to space the corresponding device from the first-mentioned device.

4. In a device of the character described, a shell square inv cross section with its upper Copies of this patentmay be obtained for face open, a section of filling at each end of said shell, abutments to maintain said filling in position, a clamp across the open face of said shell over the outer end of each section Vof filling, clamping devices with diagonal slots therein mounted on the walls of the shell to hold the rails against said filling, an adjustable abutment for each of said clamping devices, and means at each end of said casing to space the corresponding devicev from the first-mentioned device.

5. The herein described method of utilizing resilient fillings in the non-resilient shells for a railroad tie which consists in wearing each block of resilient filling at the end of the tie on one side, in turning the block of filling to expose an unworn side, in repeating the operation until all four sides of the square have been used, in turning the block of filling end for end and repeating the turning of the square block of filling.

6. The herein described method of utilizing square blocks of filling in a non-resilient casing, the wearing of said block of filling on one side, the turning of the square block of filling to another side, the utilizing of each of the four faces of the block of filling, the sawing into two or more blocks said block of filling, the insertion of braces to hold said blocks of filling in said shell, the insertion in said shell between said braces of the blocks of lling with their ends reversed to wear each of the four faces of said block of filling, the changing end for end of each block of filling and the wearing of each of the four faces of said block of filling.

In testimony whereof, I afiiX my sig/nature.

DANIEL I'I. SNYDER.

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